Back to work

By my next meeting with Ms. Fossum i am going to be done or hope to be done with my 1st draft of my paper on (7/19/07)

Portfolio.

As we reach the last hours of class, i am completing my portfolio, which contains all my work i have completed this trimester, and did some final adjustments to my proposal.

Proposal

Today, i will Work on my proposal, i need to get it checked by two people then i will be done..

Proposal

Today i worked more in detail on my proposal it is comming along niceley.

Proposal

I began brainstorming for my propsal by answering pre-write questions.

Outline

I pretty much completed my outline today just a few things to work out.

Outline

started outline working on it through out the week......

Notes.

Today i just about finished notes still need to find an artricle.

Notes... and more notes

I completed some more notes today i have answered 7 foundation questions, will continue into to marrow intill i am done as of now i ahve used 7 sources, my interview, book, and 5 websites, i need to get an article.

Notes again

Ive have complted more notes today need to answer about 5 more questions. Will update next week.

Interview

Today i had my interview with Ron Smith a Humane Society Police Officer, he gave me some very valuable information and it was nice meeting him.

Notes Con.

i began my notes today looked at a couple sources to answer some foundation questions. Still working to answer the other ones.

Notes

Today i updated my essential and foundation question, i began to start my note taking after listing to giudelines from miss fossum. I decided to try to answer my questions with my sources then site them.

Update

I have not blogged everday so i want to update how far along i am.

Im moving along fine, i got two books from the library that are usefull sources of information, I am thinking about more resources. I have my topic down pat and im looking into more information for my project.

Glossary

William Faulkner

1. Animal cruelty- Acts of violence or neglect against animals are considered animal cruelty. Some examples are lack of food, water or shelter.

2. Animal Hoarding or Collecting: a disorder in which people keep a large number of animals sometimes more than 100 at a time and neglects to care for the animals and the home environment, collectors are usually in extreme denial about the situation. Technically, hoarding
is considered a crime, and a form of neglect.

3. Branding: burning an identifying mark onto the body of an animal using an extremely hot iron stamp, or brand seared hard into the animal’s flesh for a few seconds without anesthesia. Ranchers use brands to tell their cattle and hogs from those owned by others.

4. Broilers: Chickens raised for meat consumption on factory farms. These chickens have been selected or bred so that their bodies grow very rapidly. Learn more about efforts to protect animals in factory farms.

5. Canned Hunts: The canned hunt is a practice in when hunters pay fees to shoot and kill exotic animals in a confined where they are unable to run away.

6. Crush Act: A federal law that prohibits people from creating, selling or possessing depictions of animal cruelty with the intent for personal/commercial gain.

7. Ear Cropping: The cropping of a purebred dog's ears to conform to a breed standard. Although this unnecessary surgery is performed by some veterinarians, it is done by untrained individuals, without anesthesia, in dirty environments.

8. Feral Cat: A cat too poorly socialized to be handled and who cannot be placed into a typical pet home; a small population of free-roaming cats.

9. Neglect: The failure to provide an animal with the most basic of requirements of food, water, shelter and veterinary care.

10. Killer Buyers: Men who travel from horse auction to horse auction, buying any horse they can, Then eventually sell these animals to slaughterhouses for human consumption, but regularly subject horses to cruel and inhumane treatment such as beating them, depriving them of food and water.

Foundations and essential questions

uToday i thought and typed my essential and foundation question's i had a hard time figuring them out but after Ms.Fossum helped me i was moving along.

Webliography sites

Dhiman, H.S. "Do's and Dont's of Helping Animals." Weforanimals. 25 Jan. 2005. 10 May 2007 http://www.weforanimals.com/articles/do%20and%20dont.htm.
Animals in our heartsWagner, Teresa. "Animals in Our Hearts." Animals in Our Hearts. 11 Jan. 2007. 10 May 2007 http://www.animalsinourhearts.com/support/practcl1.htm.
Animals"Animal." Wikipedia. 10 May 2007. Wikipedia. 10 May 2007 . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals
"Animal Control." Boone County Animal Control. 16 Jan. 2007. 16 May 2007 http://www.boonecountyil.org/animal/animal.htm
Cruelty to animals" Cruelty to animals." Wikipedia. 10 May 2007. Cruelty to animals. 16 May 2007 . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_abuse
Just Added
“Stop Animal Abuse." Blogspot.Com. 24 Feb. 2005. 17 May 2007
http://www.stopanimalabuse.blogspot.com/
"Facts About Animals." Humane Society. 5 Apr. 1007. 17 May 2007
http://www.hsus.org/pets/issues_affecting_our_pets/animal_abuse_and_neglect/the_facts_about_chaining_or_tethering_dogs.html
"Animal Cruelity Laws." Humane Society. 5 Apr. 2007. 17 May 2007
http://www.hsus.org/legislation_laws/citizen_lobbyist_center/animal_cruelty_laws_where_does_your_state_stand.html
"Animal Testing." Wikipedia.Org. 18 May 2007. 18 May 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing
"Animal Abuse Data Base." Pet-Abuse. 10 June 2006. 18 May 2007 http://www.pet-abuse.com/database

Anotations

After Reading over the edited annotation that Ms.Fossum read, i searched the web for more sources and did some more citations.

Sample Anotation

Today in class we prepared a sample annotation for Ms.fossum to read and make sure we are on track and give feed back how we are doing, and what we should/should not do.

MLA citation

Today we were insturcted to get atleast 3 reliable sources, and put them into MLA citation's.

Do's and dont of helping animal's.

Dhiman, H.s. "Do's and Dont's of Helping Animals." Weforanimals. 25 Jan. 2005. 10 May 2007 http://www.weforanimals.com/articles/do%20and%20dont.htm.

Animals in our hearts.

Wagner, Teresa. "Animals in Our Hearts." Animals in Our Hearts. 11 Jan. 2007. 10 May 2007 http://www.animalsinourhearts.com/support/practcl1.htm.

Animals

"Animal." Wikipedia. 10 May 2007. Wikipedia. 10 May 2007 .

Photoshop

Today, i begin to work on my poster still trying to finish, i need to come up with idea's to put on there other then a cat.

More information

Today Two 12th grader's came to speak to us about thier grad projects. After hearing the information which they gave us i am a little more worried now. There will be random people coming in which make me nervous because i am bad at talking to people. Still thinking of a topic.......

Interest Inv Pt 2

Today in class we did a second interest inv to better find out what topic that we like the best we answered a series of question's to identifiy these topics that we later will look to maybe start out project.

Intrest Inventory

Today In class I filled in my Interest Inventory and i am beginning to narrow my topic down to have something to do with Computer's and animal's. I also im beggining to search online for idea's for my graduation Project.

Intro to blog's

Today we learned about blogging, and we read about other people and how they justify thier obsession with blog's. Then we posted on Ms. Fossum's blog to see if we knew how to use them. and we are starting to blog ourself!.